Steel Beehive
The Steel Beehive is a modern, reinforced apiary system designed for environments where wooden hives would rot, warp, or be stolen by raccoons. Once deployed, it attracts a micro-colony of hyper-adapted bees that generate honey and beeswax in fixed harvest cycles.
Its humming sound is strangely therapeutic, though the manual warns against sleeping beside it.
Steel Beehive
Stacked steel-plate hive body on a galvanized base, each super finished in matte enamel and numbered along the back plate. Buzzes softly at a pitch no carpenter would accept in a wooden hive, which the beekeepers find reassuring.
- Type: Weapon, Armor, Drink, Resource, Skilling
- Effects: Generates beeswax and honey over time. Supports crafting of candles, drinks, and medicine.
- Cooldown: 300 seconds.
- Rarity: common
- Weight: 6.8
- Stackable: No
- Honey Yield: 3
- Wax Yield: 2
- Harvest Interval: 300
- Produces 3 honey and 2 beeswax every 300 seconds
- Compatible with crafting stations for:
- Candles (wax) by using Natural Beeswax
- Mead (honey) by using Jar of Honey
- Medicine (both)
- Durable and reusable in most biomes
Placement Notes
Section titled “Placement Notes”Place near wildflowers or crops for boosted output. Do not place in snow unless bees are rated for cryo-environments (sold separately).
“Where there is honey, there was once war. But now, sweetness.”
- Agronomancer Teth, Treaty of Nectar Fields
Legends speak of a beehive made of pure silver - but steel is safer, and doesn’t melt during solar flares or by jet fuel.
Credit
Section titled “Credit”
DevLog
Section titled “DevLog”- 05/27/2025 - Steel Beehive deployed with wax/honey production and crafting integrations
- TODO: Active Deployment